Smart coffee table - Skyworth's smart home control center
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Time:2019/12/06
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The control center of the smart home is making waves again. After smart TVs, smart speakers, and smart routers, Skyworth believes that the smart coffee table is the control center of the smart home. 1 […]
The control center of smart homes is making waves again. After smart TVs, smart speakers, and smart routers, Skyworth believes that smart coffee tables are the control center of smart homes.
On November 27, Skyworth Group launched the world's first smart coffee table with home intelligent control (center) system in Shenzhen.
Lai Weide, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Skyworth Group, prefers to call this project “WE
Table” product is called “Home Intelligent Control Center”.On the one hand, using it as a platform, home and home appliances have achieved true integration for the first time; on the other hand, in the family-centered Skyworth smart living industry, it has been given the role of an interaction center.
Lai Weide calls himself the "chief definer" of this product.In August this year, during an interview with a reporter from China Electronics News, while sitting on the sofa, he pointed to the coffee table in front of him and said that this is the future home intelligent control center.Three months later, a smart living control center that integrates home appliance management, home education, home entertainment, online transactions, smart speakers, ice bar freezers, and wireless charging appeared in front of the discerning media. Its product form is exactly " coffee table".
Obviously this is a long-planned move, and Skyworth has been conducting research and development for three years.“This product still needs to be continuously improved, mainly the experience, software, and functions will be continuously optimized.Lai Weide told a reporter from China Electronics News, "Three months later, it should be the appropriate time to go public.""Not long ago, Lai Weide received a new 5G mobile phone as a gift when he visited Lei Jun, chairman of Xiaomi Group. He smiled and said that he planned to give Lei Jun a smart coffee table in return.In Lai Weide's opinion, the latter is more suitable to become the intelligent control center of the home than the mobile phone.
The focus is not on the coffee table, but integrating with the home
Smart home systems on the market today usually set the center on electronic products that everyone is familiar with, and then connect and control other devices through the network.
This makes Lai Weide, who has always advocated that "smart control centers should consider home scenarios", unsatisfied:“For TV manufacturers, the TV is the intelligent control center; for audio manufacturers, the audio system is the intelligent control center; for mobile phone manufacturers, the mobile phone is the intelligent control center."
The “omnipotent” mobile phone has always been an important option at the core of the smart home market strategy, but Lai Weide expressed a different view:First, the screen of the mobile phone is too small. Second, the mobile phone is a "private screen" with strong privacy attributes. It is almost impossible for family members to fully share it. In China, communication between family members is very important.
“Public screens are more suitable to become intelligent control centers than private screens.Lai Weide explained to a reporter from China Electronics News, "The main living room is the information center of the home, and the coffee table is the center of the main living room. The platform with the coffee table as the intelligent control center meets the actual needs of many Chinese families.""
Despite this, Skyworth's intelligent coffee table has subverted people's imagination and become a new form that has never been tried in the global home appliance and home furnishing industries.
In the exhibition hall located in the Skyworth Semiconductor Design Building, a reporter from China Electronics News had close contact with this product.According to on-site staff, the Skyworth intelligent coffee table that adopts a new control method has three characteristics.First, the voice dimension has been expanded, and the background is connected to the Baidu ecosystem. As long as you call "Xiaowei Xiaowei", all Baidu Encyclopedia related content will be displayed.The second is to install a 24-inch anti-blue light, anti-glare, dustproof, waterproof, and scratch-resistant screen.Third, two 8-inch and 12-inch mobile PADs are installed on the coffee table, which can be used for whole-house control whether in the kitchen or bedroom.
The reporter noticed that inside this high-end solid wood coffee table, a central system has been built for the interconnection and intelligent interaction of all types of ecological equipment. It can not only control the whole house appliances, but also scene-based work, study, shopping, entertainment, and security. This can be achieved through the public screen of the smart coffee table.
At the press conference that day, Liu Tangzhi, CEO of Skyworth Group, said that Skyworth’s transformation and upgrading to create a smart living system does not focus on the coffee table, but the entire system and the “smart control screen” as the smart control center to integrate with the home to meet the needs of the whole family. Scene switching needs."In the future, the intelligent control center will have N forms, and will extend the application of "intelligent control screen" according to the family structure and lifestyle to meet the needs of different family structures and lifestyles."
A small “coffee table” carries big dreams
Lai Weide revealed that there are many black technologies "hidden" behind the Skyworth intelligent coffee table that integrates multiple functions, including high-definition video and audio technology, network communication technology, artificial intelligence technology, multi-touch technology, and refrigeration and preservation technology. The various patents applied for have reached 45 items.
Liu Tangzhi emphasized that the intelligent coffee table will cooperate with other companies in industrial design, but the system must be developed by Skyworth.
“The intelligent coffee table is the result of Skyworth Group’s long-term research and accumulation in the fields of multimedia, home appliances, and intelligent system technology."Lai Weide said, "In the past three years, our artificial voice technology, touch technology, and cloud interconnection technology have all achieved new developments, so we are capable of building such a control center system for smart residences."
However, Lai Weide's ambitions don't stop there.In fact, the small smart coffee table carries Skyworth's big dream of building a smart living industry ecosystem, thereby driving the transformation and upgrading of the entire industry.
Lai Weide said:“This intelligent control center can string together Skyworth’s smart products, which will not only drive the upgrade of all product categories, but will ultimately realize Skyworth’s industrial transformation from hardware to software, from manufacturing to services, and from terminals to systems."
In August this year, Lai Weide pointed out in an exclusive interview with a reporter from China Electronics News that Skyworth must form a new business model to cope with the goal of 100 billion yuan.In the context of 5G accelerating commercialization and empowering home appliances together with Internet technology, AI, etc., he hopes that Skyworth can jump out of the manufacturing industry and form a new growth driver, transforming from a hardware manufacturer to a globally competitive smart home appliance and A leading company in information technology.Skyworth has made it clear that it will strive to make the smart living business an important performance growth point for the group within three years.
Lai Weide believes that the application of smart living business with smart coffee tables as the entry point can also leverage huge potential markets in other industrial chains.“Skyworth’s smart living systems cover a wide range of areas, including smart homes, smart offices, smart hotels, smart communities and conference systems, etc."
At the press conference held on the same day, Skyworth signed strategic cooperation agreements with partners from real estate, home decoration, home furnishing and other fields such as Yuexiu Real Estate, Poly International Ecology, Liang Home Furnishings, Hong Kong Dynasty Furniture, etc., to "front-load" intelligent system technology. to the planning, design, and construction of smart residences.
“There will be no smart home in the future, just a rough house with technology. It will be difficult to distinguish whether the products of the future home are appliances or furniture."Lai Weide told reporters.As Liang Home Chairman Zeng Yuzhou said, "Real estate developers and home decoration companies have become the largest cooperation portals for smart devices."
“Smart home control centers will soon replace the traditional home appliance control model."Lai Weide is full of confidence, "(Intelligent coffee tables) will have a huge impact on traditional industries, bring the traditional home appliance industry to a new level of growth, and also help the traditional home appliance industry get out of the low-growth stage and dilemma."
Smart TVs, smart speakers, smart routers, smart coffee tables. Which one will be the last smart home control center? What else could be the next possible smart home control center?
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